DISCLAIMER: yeah. HAH—I own Kingdom hearts kiddies. In fact, I've got Sora chained to my bed and used as my love slave and I've got goofy making me pancakes downstairs. HAH—I wish.

Kairi's mom set the phone back in the receiver and looked up at Tidus, he was upset but tried not to show it. His lips formed a thin line and he looked away from her rubbing the back of his neck with his palm, "Uh…thanks. I've gotta go—"

"Are you ok?" Kairi's mother attempted to place a hand on his shoulder but he backed away slightly.

"Yeah…yeah I'm fine. I've just gotta—"he looked up at her, "I gotta go."

Tidus walked past the woman briskly avoiding another question. "Alright—good bye Tidus." She called out to the boy before he exited the front door.

Getting into his car Tidus turned on his stereo system having the volume up as loud as it could get. He drove above the speed limit nearly running over a couple of kids playing street hockey but didn't stop to really CHECK. He raced over to Sora's house not completely sure yet what he was going to do. Of course he couldn't beat the crap out of Sora like he wanted to cause Kairi would be there and totally hate him if he did. But why would she hate him for doing that? It's not like she likes him again or anything—OMFG. What if she does? What if they—He slammed on the breaks finally noticing he reached Sora's house. He bolted up the pathway to the front door and knocked on the door continuously until he heard someone unlock the door on the other side.

"Tidus?" Sora rubbed his eyes. He was in a pair of jeans (boxers showing) and shirtless.

Tidus's eyes widened, "You son of a—" he was prepared to launch his fist into Sora's jaw when he saw Kairi appear at the door beside the half-dressed boy. She on the other hand was FULLY dressed which eased his mind a bit more. He narrowed his eyes and caught Kairi's hand before she spoke, he began hauling her over to the car.

"Tidus, what are you doing?" She tried to wrench her hand from his but he had a firm grip on her.

Tidus reached the car and opened the door, "We're going home."

"WHY ARE YOU PULLING ME?" She finally got her hand loose and rubbed it, her hand was turning reddish.

"We need to talk." He motioned to her, "Get in."

"Let me at least get my shoes.." Kairi began walking back up the path.

"NO." Tidus grabbed her, "I'll go get it. just get in the car." He didn't want her to go back in the house with him. Any last 'secret good bye kisses' were not going to happen at all, even if it weren't really what he thought he didn't want to take a chance.

Kairi gave him a strange look then just did as she was told; she got into the car and sat down watching Tidus run back into the house. Sora glanced at her and smiled before Tidus reemerged from the house. Tidus shot Sora a side glare as he walked past quickly. Sora cocked and eyebrow and then shrugged his shoulders looking at Kairi, she did the same and then turned her head towards Tidus as he handed her her shoes. Sora rolled his eyes and then got back in the house.

"WHY were you at his house?"

"Because YOU LEFT ME AT THE PARTY and I had no ride!" Kairi retorted.

"Well why didn't you go with one of your girlfriends? Of all people you HAD to go with him. HE COULD HAVE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF YOU!"

"All the girls were drunk, including me—and HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT! Sora would NEVER take advantage of me. He actually stopped me from—" Kairi stopped herself from finishing her sentence.

Tidus glanced at her, "From WHAT?"

She narrowed her eyes, "From doing anything stupid—"

"LIKE?"

"It doesn't matter Tidus. Just know Sora isn't a JERK like you!"

"What do you mean? I wouldn't take advantage of a drunk chick!" Tidus slammed on the breaks in the middle of the street.

"You left me there though. If it weren't for Sora I'd be stuck there and PROBABLY would have been used my SOMEONE ELSE!"

Tidus glanced at her knowing she was right and didn't answer for a moment of two. "…Well—"

"JUST SHUT UP!" Kairi yelled. Taking in a breath she sighed and then leaned against the window. The vibration of the glass against her head was not helping her headache. She sat up straight and rubbed her temples but it didn't help. Her head still throbbed with pain and she hated all of it. I AM NEVER DRINKING AGAIN!

"Having a hang over?" Tidus asked noticing what she was doing.

Kairi stared at him for a few seconds. Was he really just going to pretend we just didn't have a dumb argument? She ignored the question and leaned back in her seat closing her eyes. Tidus got the message and just continued driving without another word. Kairi, though her eyes were shut, could see shadows pass by her face; trees and houses. She reopened her eyes and looked out the window still leaning back in her seat. The sun was still rising and the light was warm against her skin. There was still dew on peoples' lawns and everything just had a gold tint, it was nice. Kairi shut her eyes again and took a deep breath; she wanted to smile cause it was so beautiful outside but right now was a bad moment so she'd look like she was bi-polar or something. Finally she felt the car come to a stop and she opened her eyes and saw her house. Tidus didn't get out of the car meaning he wasn't going to go in the house, good. She unbuckled herself and opened the door. Before she got out of the car she felt Tidus grab her left hand gently.

She slowly turned around to look at her 'boyfriend', "What?" was all she said.

Tidus looked down and away from her eyes, he fixed his eyes on the armrest between them and then let go. Kairi didn't say anything but continued to her house. She jogged up the stairs to her room and shut the door; leaning against it she let out a long sigh and slid down to the ground.

"Oh my god…" she muttered placing her face into her hands and then running them through her hair. Her hands were still in her hands, elbows propped up on her knees; bent over a little still sitting against the door she was facing the floor and lost in deep thought.

What do I get myself into? God…I can't believe I almost slept with Sora yesterday. Was that real? Is that really how I feel? I still 'secretly' want Sora? I—I guess I do. I can't believe he actually stopped me.

Kairi smiled a bit at the thought of Sora; he was a great guy—but whatever. She pulled herself off the floor and walked into the bathroom. Turning on the warm faucet water in the tub Kairi sat down on the side of it and waited for the tub to fill up. She needed a bubble bath.

Tidus slammed his car door shut. The garage was dark, he stumbled over a couple of boxes on his way to the door but managed not to fall and break anything. Inside the house he walked into the one place where he could be at peace, the kitchen. He sighed and tossed his keys into a small jar on the counter. The kitchen smelt really nice—his mother must have been making breakfast.

"MOM?" he called out.

"Yes?" his mother replied, her voice was coming from the living room.

"Did you cook?" He opened the fridge and bent down into it and searched for snacks.

"Yes I did hun. You missed breakfast—where were you?"

"Out."

"It's still so early though." She stopped then spoke again, "You want me to make some pancakes for you?"

"Nah. It's ok ma. I'll just.." he swallowed the chewed up cupcake in his mouth, "Munch."

"Are you eating out of the fridge?"

Tidus looked around the kitchen, "Uh…" he grabbed a glass out of one of the many cabinets and filled it up with juice, "NO." he lied. It was so obvious.

His mother laughed but didn't stop him. He continued raiding the fridge until he heard someone knock on the door.

He wiped the crumbs off his face with the back of his hand and walked over to the door. He looked through the peephole and saw a brunette girl with her back towards the door. He opened the door just as the girl spun around and was startled, "Tidus?"

"Yuna? How the heck did you find out where I live?"

"I didn't know you lived here. I'm—uh…doing this petition thing to help save the old small park down the street."

"By yourself?"

"No..there's like, ten of us. But we're going door to door asking people to sign this petition on whether they think the park should stay and be modified a little, or to go ahead and bulldoze it and make a department store, which let me remind you we've already got two of those near by."

Tidus chuckled, "What do you care about a little park?"

"A LOT. My little brother plays at that park like EVERYDAY."

"You have a kid brother?" Tidus leaned against the doorframe.

"Yeah. His name's Tyler."

"How old is he?"

"Uh..8. We're getting off the topic. You wanna sign the petition or not?" Yuna held out a clipboard with papers and a pen to Tidus.

"Hah ha. Ok I'm totally convinced, I WILL." He signed the paper and handed it back with a smile on his face. Yuna glanced at the clipboard then back up at him and returned the smile.

"Thank you." She proceeded to the next house without saying 'bye'.

"Your welcome!" Tidus called to her and waved. She laughed and waved back from across the small street and then he stepped back in the house. She's cute. OMG what am I saying? I have a girlfriend, wait—what do I care? She does this to me…doesn't she? I sound like a total jerk, I don't deserve Kairi, no—I DO too. I'm losing it. I don't even know what I'm saying…ok it's probably time I shut up now.

Just as Tidus finished 'talking to himself' in his head his brother Dalton boarded through the kitchen and into the living room and attempted to somehow do a kick-flip over the couch. The idiot. Tidus sat back in his recliner and watched his brother hit the couch with his board and feet causing him to roll over the couch and topple onto the hardwood floor. Tidus began to laugh hysterically and point at the blonde skinny boy on the floor. Dalton laughed to and lifted his right hand up giving Tidus 'the bird'. Tidus got up and reached a hand out to him, Dalton took his hand and he pulled the dumb kid off the floor.

"Dude, you are so stupid." Tidus continued laughing.

"HA..HA. shut up." He patted off his jeans and shirt. He cringed his face as he rubbed his butt, "Man, I hope I didn't bruise my—"

"Gross man. That's gross." Tidus walked into the kitchen and called back, "You'd better make sure you didn't leave any marks on the floor, mom'll KILL YOU."

"Yeah I know." Dalton picked up his board and began surveying the ground.

Walking to the fridge Tidus reached for the handle to pull the fridge door open but stopped spotting a picture of him and Kairi at a carnival pinned up on the fridge. Instead of opening the fridge he grabbed the picture and studied it. He and Kairi were on the Farris Wheel and cuddled up together. It was sunset and already chilly, both had on sweaters. He had his left arm around Kairi and his right arm out holding the camera in front of them. The shot was a little too far to the left but it looked fine. Tidus smiled and carried it up to his room to frame it.

Meanwhile at Kairi's house she was looking at the same picture. She held it in one hand, in the other a pair of large scissors. She smiled and then snipped the picture in 'halves' between herself and Tidus. Spread out all over her bed were pictures all with Tidus cut out of or colored over with a sharpie. That was the last of the many pictures she had of them.

"Woah. Musta been SOME break up."

Kairi spun around startled; she didn't know anyone else was in the room. To her TOTAL surprise it was Riku. She jumped to her feet, "OMG Riku!" she jumped on him and gave him a huge hug.

He laughed, "I missed you, too."

"How are you!" Kairi stepped back to examine her friend whom she hadn't seen in months. He changed completely; he was dressed differently (not the usual punk rocker look), he didn't seem so tired, happy, not as buff as before—lack of lifting weights probably—and his hair was shorter.

"I'm doing—a lot better." He smiled and ran a hand through his hair.

WAIT—his hair is shorter! "OMG you cut your hair!" Kairi touched his front bangs and marveled at it, "It looks nice."

"Yeah, actually I cut it a while back…before I left, you just didn't see it." It must have been shorter, cause it was now down to his eyes. Riku probably didn't know, but Sora had told her about him and being in rehab for drug abuse. "So..explain the pictures."

"Oh. HA…er—"

"You and Tidus break up?"

"No..um. not exactly. We just argued about Sora earlier so like—"

"OH." He laughed, "What about Sora?"

"Uh—ok. Reno threw a party, Tidus left, I got TOTALLY drunk—"

"HA HA. you? DRUNK?" Riku interrupted.

"YES. Let me finish my story!" Riku smiled sheepishly, "Ok. I was drunk and needed a ride home, with no house key, so Sora took me to his house and er—"

"You guys did it?"

"NO. um. Heh—I would have—I WAS WASTED!"

"Oh…go on."

"Yeah…so like—NOTHING HAPPENED, but Tidus doesn't really believe me. And like—I'm..MAD at him."

"Hah ha. i hope you never get mad at me." Riku joked.

Kairi smiled and suggested they go out for burgers to talk some more but he turned down the offer. He said he had some things to take care of first and that they could hang out on a weekend or something. Kairi smiled and of course agreed, she walked him downstairs to the door and said "BYE". And again, he was gone. It was nice seeing him again though; Kairi stood at the door then remembered all the trash still on her bed. She giggled and trotted back up the stairs.

Yuffie pinned Tommy down on the living room couch and the two began making out heavily. Sora walked down the stairs spotting them he rolled his eyes, "If you guys are gonna do THAT why don't you go to your OWN houses?" He walked into the kitchen and poured a cup of coffee.

Yuffie and Tommy sat up still 'at it' and she pulled off her sweater, "We" … "Can't."

Sora pulled out the crème, "Why not?"

"My mom's" … "Home." She replied in between kisses.

"Then go to Tommy's house." Sora stirred his coffee and then began searching for the sugar.

"DUDE. My grandma's visiting." Tommy said while Yuffie was sucking his neck.

"OMG. I am not going to let you guys BANG in my living room!"

They didn't stop.

"FRIGGIN IDIOTS!" Sora walked out onto the patio in the backyard and took a seat in one of the small chairs. "This is great." He sighed and took a sip of the coffee, "They'd better not leave a stain."

A/N: ok—my mind went blank after this again and I've decided 'that's enough for one chapter—I think'. AND Sorry I took like—FOREVER TO UPDATE. Lol. I had spring break and was like—out of town. And though spring break DID end on Monday which today isSunday I felt too lazy to update. Gosh I'm horrible. But I'm trying. Lol—and..

luvbobbyo01 I really can't find a way to fit that into the story again. Lol—any ideas? And you are SO NOT crazy. Lol, I don't THINK you are.

Panda-chan is it really like the OC? I didn't know—lol. I never get to watch the show, I want to though.

carbuncle lol—HOMIE is fine with me, dawg is too. Hah ha. but "THE COOLEST PERSON ALIVE" works too. Hah ha

AND LIKE..THANKS ALL OF YOU OTHER PEOPLE THAT REVIEWED, I am too lazy (and tired) and must go to bed. I HEART YOU ALL. ADIOS!